¹tn The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute for emphasis, which the translation indicates with “indeed.”
²tn Heb “commanding.”
³tn Heb “and overtake you.”
⁴tn Or “in the country.” This expression also occurs in v. 15.
⁵tn Heb “the fruit of your womb.”
⁶sn Come in…go out. To “come in” and “go out” is a figure of speech (merism) indicating all of life and its activities.
⁷tn Heb “who rise up against.”
⁸tn Heb “way” (also later in this verse and in v. 25).
⁹tn Heb “the Lord your God.” Because English would not typically reintroduce the proper name following a relative pronoun (“he will bless…the Lord your God is giving”), the pronoun (“he”) has been employed here in the translation.
¹⁰tn Heb “the commandments of the Lord your God.” See note on “he” in the previous verse.
¹¹tn Heb “and walk in his ways.”
¹²tn Heb “the name of the Lord is called over you.” The Hebrew idiom indicates ownership; see 2 Sam 12:28; Isa 4:1, as well as BDB 896 Niph. 2.d.(4).
¹³tn Heb “the fruit of your womb.”
¹⁴tn Heb “the Lord.” See note on “he” in 28:8.
¹⁵tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 36, 64).
¹⁶tn Heb “all the work of your hands.”
¹⁷tn Heb “the Lord your God’s.” See note on “he” in 28:8.
¹⁸tn Heb “commanding.”
¹⁹tn Heb “from all the words which I am commanding.”
²⁰tn Heb “in order to serve.”
²¹tn Heb “do not hear the voice of.”
²²tn Heb “commanding.”
²³tn Heb “and overtake you.”
²⁴tn Heb “the fruit of your womb.”
²⁵sn See note on the similar expression in v. 6.
²⁶tn Heb “the curse, the confusion, and the rebuke.”
²⁷tn Heb “in all the stretching out of your hand.”
²⁸tc For the MT first person common singular suffix (“me”), the LXX reads either kurion (“Lord”; Lucian) or third person masculine singular suffix (“him”; various codices). The MT’s more difficult reading probably represents the original text.
tn Heb “the evil of your doings wherein you have forsaken me.”
²⁹tn Heb “will cause pestilence to cling to you.”
³⁰tn Heb “The Lord.” See note on “he” in 28:8.
³¹tn Or perhaps “consumption.” The term is from a verbal root that indicates a weakening of one’s physical strength.
³²tn Heb “hot fever.”
³³tn Or “drought.”
³⁴tc The MT reads “Your.” The LXX reads “Heaven will be to you.”
³⁵tn Or “heavens” (also in the following verse). The Hebrew term <y]m^v* (v*m^y]<) may be translated “heaven(s)” or “sky” depending on the context.
³⁶tc The meaningless MT reading hw`u&z^ is clearly a transposition of the more commonly attested Hebrew noun hu*w`z+, “terror.”
³⁷tn Heb “heart.”
³⁸tn Heb “you will not cause your ways to prosper.”
³⁹tc For MT reading lgv (“ravish; violate”), the Syriac, Targum, and Vulgate presume the less violent bkv (“lie with”). The unexpected counterpart to betrothal here favors the originality of the MT.
⁴⁰tn Heb “and there will be no power in your hand.”
⁴¹tc The LXX reads the plural “kings.”
⁴²tn Heb “your olives will drop off” (lvn), referring to the olives dropping off before they ripen.
⁴³tn The Hebrew term denotes some sort of buzzing or whirring insect; some have understood this to be a type of locust, but other insects have also been suggested: “buzzing insects” (NAB); “the cricket” (NASB); “the cicada” (NRSV).
⁴⁴tn Heb “commanded.”
⁴⁵tn Heb “they”; the referent (the curses mentioned previously) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
⁴⁶tn Heb “seed.”
⁴⁷tn Heb “lack of everything.”
⁴⁸tn Heb “he” (also later in this verse). The pronoun is a collective singular referring to the enemies. Many translations understand the singular pronoun to refer to the Lord (cf. NAB, NIV, NRSV).
⁴⁹tn Heb “from the end of the earth.”
⁵⁰tn Some translations understand this to mean “like an eagle swoops down,” comparing the swift attack of an eagle to the attack of the Israelites’ enemies.
⁵¹tn Heb “it,” a collective singular referring to the invading nation (several times in this verse and v. 52).
⁵²tn Heb “increase of herds.”
⁵³tn Heb “growth of flocks.”
⁵⁴tn Heb “gates,” also in vv. 55, 57.
⁵⁵tn Heb “the fruit of your womb.”
⁵⁶tn Heb “siege and stress.”
⁵⁷tn Heb “besiege,” redundant with the noun “siege.”
⁵⁸tc The LXX adds sfodra (“very”) to bring the description into line with v. 54.
⁵⁹tn Heb “delicateness and tenderness.”
⁶⁰tn Heb includes “that which comes out from between her feet.”
⁶¹tn Heb “her sons that she will bear.”
⁶²tn Heb includes “in her need for everything.”
⁶³tn Heb “If you are not careful to do.”
⁶⁴sn These are the plagues the Lord inflicted on the Egyptians prior to the exodus which, though they did not fall upon the Israelites, must have caused great terror (cf. Exod 15:26).
⁶⁵tn Heb “cling to you.”
⁶⁶tn The Hebrew term hr`oT can refer either (1) to the whole Pentateuch or, more likely, (2) to the Book of Deuteronomy or even (3) just to this curse section of the covenant text.
⁶⁷tn Or “heavens.” The Hebrew term <y]m^v* (v*m^y]<) may be translated “heaven(s)” or “sky” depending on the context.
⁶⁸tn Heb “have not listened to the voice of.”
⁶⁹tn Heb “the Lord.” See note on “he” in 28:8.
⁷⁰tn Heb “you will not be confident in your life.” The phrase “from one day to the next” is implied by the following verse.